ATLANTA, September 9, 2019—Leading IT research firm Gartner has released its official market guide for Data Center and Network Third-Party Hardware Maintenance featuring CentricsIT as a representative vendor. Gartner releases report titled, “Market Guide for Data Center and Network Third-Party Hardware Maintenance,” compiled by Rob Schafer, Christine Tenneson, Mike Toussaint, and Daniel Bowers. This report was published on August 29, 2019. Readers must be a Gartner subscriber to access the full report (Gartner ID: G00414695). Gartner released its Market Guide for Data Center and Network Third-Party Hardware Maintenance in August 2019. CentricsIT is among the TPM providers listed as representative vendors. The Atlanta-based company is profiled among other vendors, and the guide lists key findings to help IT leaders identify the benefits of third-party hardware maintenance. CentricsIT leadership supports the [...]

Hardware’s not dead. But you need a vendor with global support to monitor it. It's time to think global third-party maintenance. Cloud is far from the cure-all that its IT buzzword has been inflated to. The reality is that most organizations are still running on a hybrid IT model—you will be hard-pressed to find either a 100% cloud or 100% on-premise business. Consequently, failing to pay the proper attention to the hardware you have on-premise can be a costly mistake. When you throw all your attention and resources at cloud, you miss out on critical opportunities in-house. The Realities of the Virtual and the Physical Realms Cloud can be more expensive than IT teams anticipate. Optimizing your cloud usage is key, especially when considering the cost and complexities of legacy app [...]